Does Lucian needs a buff?

kwaazaa·Jun 29, 2015·6 votes·2,640 views

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Well, i think my question is pretty clear. My thoughts are that really needs a buff on his range (mostly) and maybe make his culling have OR a better scaling or let lucian change the direction very slow. Please give your thoughts on and if he needs a nerf, or just like low winrate, I just have to master him to get good with him.

~Kwaazaa

5 Comments

Drunk RummateJun 29, 20155 votes

It's kind of sad because Kalista created this environment where you either pick Kalista, or you don't pick Lucian. She fills the same niche as him as an early-midgame ADC with chase potential and she does it stronger than he could ever hope to.

I feel like Lucian lost his niche when Kalista was introduced, especially because it happened right after a huge trail of nerfs. Nerfs that were justifiable because he was overpowered, but nerfs that brought him slightly below average at the time and have now left him as one of the lowest winrate ADCs in the game.

Not sure how I would fix Lucian. I think his mobility is in a great spot. Maybe bump his range up to 525 and see how it feels?

KlavinovaJul 18, 20152 votes

No one remembers Twitch
Kalista's rend does more damage at 1~6 stacks than Twitch's Contaminate, and her rend can stack more than 6 times. There is just no benefit to picking twitch right now, since he is so weak in lane (hilariously weak...where do I begin?), it doesn't justify picking him for his lategame. Either make him even better than Ryze lategame, or buff his early/mid

KãtãrinãJun 29, 20151 votes

being able to turn like velkoz would be a bit strong since he can move and dash during his while vel is just... stuck lol. Idk i see him every now and then so maybe he does maybe he doesn't i'm not an adc main so i wouldn't know

RysophageJun 29, 20151 votes

Lucian is just another one of the adcs that became unplayable due to Cinderhulk and randuins omen dominating the game atm. He dosent need buffs right now, he's just not vayne, ashe, twich, or sivir. adcs that can either straight up combat this dumb meta, or can just be useful for the team in other ways.

Sire HippingtonJun 29, 20151 votes

While I do agree that lucian is in a rather bad spot right now and needs some buffs, i don't think that a range increase of ult buff are the right direction.

Lucians trademark is mobillity, he got a low cd no cost dash and a ms-steroid. However, he also got nasty casttimes, breaking the flow in his combo and hindering his mobillity. I would change his Q into from beam into a projectile with acerlerating speed and drastically lower the cast time. The misslespeed should be tuned to hit enemies on castrange(550) with the same delay as his current Q. The faster castime would help alot at kiteing/chaseing and even boosts his dps at higher AS(you will reach a point at which the frame between two AAs is shorter than the current Q castime), while the change to projectile leaves it just as reliable in normal combat range, and makes it a bit easier to dodge on long range, which also is good as the near unavoidable longrange poke in lane is really annoying and one of the reasons he ended up that nerfed. The W could youse more impact, currently there is no point in it beeing a longranged skillshot with unique hitbox, it barly deals damage, the vision it gives is only usefull to detect ambushes as it doesn't even last a sec, and the MS is bound to AAs. I think as lightslinger, he should be have a bit more vision in his kit. If his W would reveal targets for 1/1.5/2/2.5/3 sec, it would already be a lot more usefull. I'd also love to see the W castime+animation scale with AS like Tris E. Maybe also give him a bit better base tankiness to compensate the short range.